A Salem man accused of using eBay to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars buying and selling motorcycles and cars returned to the website last month, a Spokane, Wash., man said.

Roger Slater said he was lucky to avoid becoming a victim too when he sold Rance Carli a motorcycle on eBay in August, two years after Carli was first arrested in September 2010.

It was the same motorcycle that was sold last month on eBay. Slater said it was advertised using Slater’s photos showing the motorcycle with Washington license plates and with the same mileage it had when Carli bought it.

The transaction was legitimate, Slater said. The buyer was the American Police Motorcycle Museum in Meredith, N.H. Slater said he contacted the museum and was told the motorcycle had indeed arrived there.

Carli is facing a total of six first-degree larceny charges and two second-degree larceny charges for allegedly bilking people on eBay. If convicted on all of them, he could face a maximum of 130 years in prison.

Carli also is facing lesser charges of second-degree forgery and third-degree identity theft. They could add a maximum of another 10 years to his sentence.

He is free on $650,000 bail. His bail was raised by $200,000 after an arrest in December when police said they found two more victims, and one of the first-degree larceny charges and one of the second-degree larceny charges were added.

Carli is due to make appearances Wednesday in New London and Norwich Superior Courts on all his cases.

“He’s a total bandit,” Slater said about Carli.

Slater said Carli agreed to pay him $12,000 for his 1985 Norton Interpol 2, a motorcycle used for police escort duty in London. Slater had brought it from England and restored it.

Slater said he held the bike until his bank advised him that a wire transfer for the purchase price had been received. Then he shipped it east to Salem.

Three days later, Slater said, the bank called him to tell him the wire transaction was fraudulent.

Slater said luckily for him, the motorcycle was still traveling across the country and had gotten as far as Columbus, Ohio. But unluckily for him, the transport company refused to ship it back, telling him Carli was its customer and he wanted it delivered.

Carli, meanwhile, repeatedly promised Slater he would fix whatever mistake had been made and send the money he owed, but the promised money failed to arrive, Slater said.

But a Spokane police detective stepped in and saved things, Slater said. The motorcycle was ordered held in a warehouse and the detective contacted police in Salem.

“They said, ‘This character is already known to us,’ ” Slater said. State police managed to persuade Carli to pay, not only for the motorcycle but the storage charges while the motorcycle was impounded.

Page 2 of 2 - Carli kept demanding him to ship the motorcycle to him, but Slater, who now had read news reports of what Carli was accused of, said he refused until he was sure six or seven days later that the money really had arrived.